THE candles lighted and the figure prone <br />Announce this to you: they are laid aside, <br />The noble, whimsical and pathetic roles, <br />Disanimated, not to be resumed! <br /> <br />And still the knocks, the three, the solemn knocks! <br /> <br />The role we singled when we spoke his name, <br />Of instant goodness and deep faithfulness <br />Will be sustained beyond the curtain fall.<br /><br />Padraic Colum<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dead-player-in-memory-of-dudley-digges/
